2010’s Forgotten Moments of Brief and Enormous Importance

Virtuosic singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell had unkind things to say about virtuosic singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in an April interview with The Los Angeles Times. “Bob is not authentic at all,” she said. “He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.”

Playboy magnate Hugh Hefner donated the final $900,000 required to keep the Hollywood sign from being destroyed.

After the blog Gizmodo discovered a trick that allowed tweeters to turn any fellow user into a follwer, Twitter temporarily stripped all accounts of their followers and followees.

Before Sarah Palin had Alaska,the former vice-presidential candidate hosted a Fox News show called Real American Stories. A promotional clip for the forgotten program featured an LL Cool J interview from 2008, creating the illustion that the musician had agreed to an interview with the show. In fact, he did no such thing, and took to Twitter to set the record straight.

While making a joke about Faisal Shazhad, Times Square would-be bomber, unctuous corporate cipher Jay Leno showed a mockup of Shazhad’s fake Facebook page. The parodic profile listed the terrorist as a member of Team CoCo.